The Deluge | James Fotopoulos | Fantasma Inc
The Deluge by James Fotopoulos 66 min – stereo Cover by James Fotopoulos(c) 2005 Fantasma Inc Tracklist: 1. The Deluge (1h 06m 42s) MP3 version (99.9 MB zip download)
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Dead Son | James Fotopoulos | Fantasma Inc
Dead Son by James Fotopoulos Featuring: Rebecca Pavlatos, Adrienne, Luis Miguel Bendaña, Whitney Faile, Junaper Joan, Lauren Oxenhandler 34 min 01 sec – stereo Cover by James Fotopoulos(c) 2010 Fantasma … Continue reading
Insta-gator | James Fotopoulos | Fantasma Inc
Insta-gator by James Fotopoulos Featuring Thomasina The Insta-gator album is based on the Insta-gator character from James Fotopoulos’ 2006 film The Window of Time Cover image from James Fotopoulos‘ 2007 … Continue reading
Hubert Bergmann | La zone de mémoire | Mudoks Record
La zone de mèmoire erzählt von den Personen die in Palästina leben, dorthin reisen, eingewandert sind , oder sich dort in verschiedenen Situationen (wieder) finden, dort leben oder dort waren, wirken und auch sich verwirkt haben. Alle wandeln sie von einer zur nächsten imaginären inneren wie äußeren Grenze, über den nächsten Checkpoint, die endlosen Rollen von Stacheldraht und Mauern die das Land in eine einzige Sperr- und Grenzfläche verunstalten. Grenzen und Mauern in den Köpfen der Menschen, obwohl es keine offiziellen Grenzen gibt um eine solche aber brutal und blutig gestritten bzw. “verhandelt” wird. Sie Alle sind GRENZGÄNGER in einem von Stacheldraht und Mauern durchzogenen Land, Vertriebene und Vertreiber, die mit ihrem fragmentieren Leben immer wieder die unbedingte Grenzüberschreitung wachrufen. — Hubert Bergmann Continue reading
Hubert Bergmann | Spurwechsel | Mudoks Record
SPURWECHSEL | a film by Hubert Bergmann 2002/2014 Anlässlich eines Projektes mit autistischen Jugendlichen innerhalb dessen die „Bilder einer Ausstellung“ von Modest Mussorgski an öffentlichen Plätzen szenisch-musikalisch aufgeführt werden, entsteht dieser Film, der an den stummen Innenräumen der Protagonisten partizipiert. Durch verschiedene Perspektivwechsel, gesprochenen Texten der „sprachlosen“ Jugendlichen (gestützte Kommunikation) und Zu-Deutung wird ihnen zur Sprache im öffentlichen Raum verholfen. So wechseln die Darsteller ohne dies zunächst zu ahnen (oder vielleicht doch?) zwischen ihren „verrückten“ Innen Räumen und den normalen Außenräumen, den Orten der Performances hin und her. Schließlich wird spürbar was der Schriftsteller Arno Gruen auf den Punkt bringt. „Der Wahnsinn der Normalität“, als Spiegel des Satzes: „Ganz normaler Wahnsinn“. Nur, wer und was ist Wahn.. Sinn.. ig…..?!? — Hubert Bergmann Continue reading
Henry Kuntz | The Ecstatic Center | HBD 02 | Free Download
HENRY KUNTZ: Nepalese Flute & Soprano Recorder (played together), Morocco double-reed Rhaita, Tenor Saxophone. Performance of July 25, 1999 Beanbenders at Fine Arts Theatre Berkeley, California. On-location digital recording and original mastering & mix by Michael Zelner. Thanks to Dan Plonsey who invited me to play at Beanbenders and to Michael Zelner who exquisitely captured the diverse sounds of the instruments. Continue reading
EX-P | Ancora Saigon | fratto 9
Improvisation and an estranged kind of sound are still the main features, searched inside the huge territories of rock. We’re aware of being a little late, we often look to a musical world and way of making music that’s run beside the times. The two electric basses can explore deeply the heaviness and versatility of the only true contemporary musical instrument, so technologic on the surface and neo-tribal at the core. Drums can distract from rhythms, sometimes becoming an acoustic colour and environmental noise generator. Continue reading
EX-P | Carpaccio Esistenziale | fratto 9
Entity formed by musicians strongly professing their psychedelic faith sons of post-modern breaking-up, incapable of choosing between jazz noise and Italian tunes of Japanese manga, ill at ease in paying our respects both to Pink Floyd and to the most tremendous metal. After ten years, conflagration leaves room to the need of building up a more constant and meditative way, creating EX-P. Continue reading
A Spirale | Agaspastik | fratto 9
Try to imagine Kevin Drumm and Bhob Rainey playing rock together, with a drummer that deviate their already deviant music playing something coming from the sixties. The aim is to make music “not playing” (barbarous music, quoting Cornelius Cardew), a torn body that spits blood, whose only movement is generated by spastic contractions due to injuries. Agaspastik represents the “step beyond” of A Spirale, that from electroacoustic destructuration of “Porosità” (cd-r) and “Gariga” (SM – 1360) expand their range of possibility and control over the sound matter, losing themselves in the languages of radical improvisation, of power noise, of punk… Very dark and violent music, with bewildering moments of melody… Continue reading
Andrea Marutti | Fausto Balbo | Detrimental Dialogue | fratto 9
Andrea Marutti and Fausto Balbo have met in 2005 at Lab12 in Vigevano; both active in music making since more than fifteen years, their friendship has grown over the years on the fertile ground of the interest that they share about electronic experimentation and their wide and open-minded listening habits. “Detrimental Dialogue”, their very first collaboration, deeply explores various types of analogue and digital synthesis (additive, subtractive, Physical Modeling, FM, Phase Distortion, Granular, etc.) and live electronics elements. Recorded together in the authors’ studios and then worked out in seclusion between 2007 and 2009, the tracks on “Detrimental Dialogue” were subsequently redefined during a one-week long collective mixing session rigorously made with analogue equipment and precious outboard effects at Fausto Balbo’s studio. Continue reading